Strata was involved in the Design and Construction of an earth dam with a capacity of up to 360,000,000 liters to be used to irrigate roughly 1000 acres of farmland for Mutara Orchards Ltd. This water is harvested from surface runoff and floodwater from river Suguroi near the dam through an intake located upstream of the river.

The scope of work included:

• Geotechnical survey

• Excavation for the dam, spillway and silt trap

• Compaction of embankment

• Construction of the intake structure including laying the intake pipe and construction of the intake chamber.

• Construction of the reinforced concrete sump.

• Construction of a pumphouse

• Installing a solar power unit

• Laying of the raising main and river abstraction gravity main.

• Erection of a 150m3 elevated steel paneled tank

• Construction of a concrete weir complete with off-take chamber

• Laying of low lift pipe from the sump to the reservoir

• Construction of the access road.